Ahhh. [light goes on] Of course! That makes a lot of sense. That would
explain why the GUI is in Russian, but certain apps are clueless and see
only non-printable characters. Bash being one of them.

Many thanks I will play with this tonight. Hope I don't wipe my system
clean. Someone please pray for me. ;) 
In fact this is probably a good time to emerge -u world

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Clinton [mailto:clintonj@umkc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 2:06 PM
> To: Brian Densmore
> Cc: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: International filesystem
> 
> 
> Brian Densmore wrote:
> > A question!
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to configure Linux so that you can use
> > international characters in filenames? Like say for 
> instance Cyrillic.
> > And still be able to use the standard characters in say English?
> > 
> > Any pointer are greatly appreciated. Since I now have great need for
> > both character sets on one box.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> > 
> 
> The best way is to build everything you use with UTF8 support 
> and NLS support. 
> Bash, as of this writting, doesn't support Unicode but it 
> does support NLS. In 
> some distros you need to select UTF as your viewing language 
> and US 105 keyboard 
> as your input.
> 
>